Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies
of
American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of
America
in seventeen eighty-nine. The fledgling United States opened the
nineteenth
century by stealing the continent of North America from the Indians,
while
in the process ethnically cleansing them and then finally deporting the
pitiful few survivors by means of death marches (a la Bataan) to
Bantustans,
which in America we call reservations, as in instance of America's
manifest
destiny to rule the world.

Then, the imperial government of the United States opened the twentieth
century by stealing a colonial empire from Spain - in Cuba, Puerto Rico,
Guam and the Philippines, then inflicting a near-genocidal war against
the
Filipino people. While at the same time, purporting to annex, the
kingdom of
Hawaii and subjecting the native Hawaiian people to near-genocidal
conditions from which they still suffer today- all in the name of
securing
America's so-called place in the sun.

And today at the dawn of the twenty first century, the world witnesses
the
effort by the imperial government of the United States of America to
steal a
hydrocarbon empire from the Moslem states and peoples, surrounding
central
Asia and the Persian Gulf under the pretext of fighting a war against
international terrorism or eliminating weapons of mass destruction or
promoting democracy which is total nonsense.

For the past two hundred and sixteen years, the imperialist foreign
policy
of the United States of America since its foundation, has been
predicated
upon racism, aggression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against
humanity, war crimes and outright genocide. At the dawn of the third
millennium of humankind's parlous existence, nothing has changed about
the
operational dynamics of American imperial policy. And we see this today
in
Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and what appears to be an illegal attack
upon
Iran.

Now the topic today is the Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony and
Islam. So, I'm only going to limit my comments to that subject. We have
to
begin the story with the Arab oil embargo in nineteen seventy-three. As
you
know in nineteen sixty-seven, Israel launched an illegal and preventive
war
against the surrounding Arab states, stole the land and ethnically
cleansed
the people. But eventually Egypt offered a Peace Treaty to Israel which
Israel rejected and the Egyptians and the Arab states decided then to
use
force to recover their lands.

Israel almost collapsed, the United States and Europe came to their
support
by providing weapons and in reaction the Arab states imposed an oil
embargo
on the United States and Europe, and brought their economies to their
knees.
Whereupon, the then U.S Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger threatened
them
and said, this will never happen again, and if you do, we will prevent
it.
And it was not just a threat. The United States government then at that
time, planned, prepared and conspired, to steal the oil of the Persian
Gulf.
They did not have the military capability to do this at that time, to
carry
out the Kissinger threat, which was also then repeated by the Ford
administration, and the Carter administration under Harold Brown and
Brzezinski.

So they put into planning an interventionary force, designed expressly
for
the purpose of stealing Arab oil fields, and that was called the rapid
deployment force. And it took ten years of training, planning,
positioning,
and supply to build that interventionary force of that capability and
eventually it was called the U.S. Central Command. The purpose of the
U.S.
Central Command is to steal and control and dominate the oil and gas
resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. And that's exactly what
the
U.S. Central Command proceeded to do in the Bush Sr. war against Iraq,
their
first military expedition.

And as we know, that war exterminated probably two hundred thousand
Iraqis.
Half of them innocent civilians. Simply wiped out in a bombing campaign
and
a military expedition of unprecedented dimensions. But remember, it took
fifteen years for the Pentagon and three different administrations both
Republicans and Democrats to get the capability to do this. And then,
when
that genocide or conflict was over, what happened? The United States
carved
Iraq up into three pieces with their air force, the so-called no-fly
zones,
a zone for the Kurds in the North, a zone for the Shi'ah in the South,
and
the Sunni in the middle. Why? To destroy Iraq as an effectively viable
state.

In his book, Clash of Civilizations, Huntington from Harvard who advised
the
Pentagon and advised the state department pointed out that the only Arab
state with the capability to lead the Arab world and challenge the
United
States and Israel was Iraq. And so Iraq had to be destroyed, to maintain
the
domination of the United States and its proxy, Israel. And remember
after
nineteen seventy-three, whatever it was before then, Israel is nothing
more
than a catspaw of the United States. They do what America tells them to
do.
Otherwise Israel is nothing more than a failed state.

In addition then, to destroying Iraq as a state, carving it up into
three
pieces, was the decision to debilitate and destroy the Iraqi people. And
so
they continued the genocidal economic sanctions on the people of Iraq,
that
my colleagues, Denis Halliday, Hans Von Sponeck, so courageously
resisted
and finally resigned as a matter of principle, calling them by what they
really were, genocide. The United States and Britain maliciously and
criminally imposed genocidal sanctions on the people of Iraq, that
killed
approximately 1.5 million Iraqis, all of whom were innocent civilians.

And when U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked about the
five
hundred thousand dead children, she said that she thought the price was
worth it. Now, I could have taken that statement to the International
Court
of Justice, and filed it against the United States as evidence of
genocidal
intent against the people of Iraq in violation of the 1948 Genocide
Convention. And indeed I offered to do so to the then President of Iraq,
but
for whatever reasons he decided not to take these claims to the
International Court of Justice.

And now, as you see, he is on trial in a total kangaroo court proceeding
in
Baghdad that is completely controlled and dominated by the United States
government. So, 1.5 million Iraqis died as the result of these genocidal
sanctions. And then came September 11. And we know for a fact that the
Bush
Jr. administration knew that a major terrorist attack was going to be
launched on the United States. And they let it happen anyway
deliberately
and on purpose. Why? They wanted a pretext for war. And not just one war
but
for a long war which they are talking about today.

Indeed, from my research the war plans drawn up by the Pentagon for the
war
against Afghanistan were formulated as early as 1997. Enormous military
forces fielded by that same U.S. Central Command, were already in and
around
and surrounding the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean before September
11.
This war had been planned against Afghanistan. And armed, equipped,
supplied, trained and war-gamed and ready to go. They just needed the
pretext and that was September 11. Why? The United States wanted access
to
the oil and natural gas of Central Asia.

That had been a Pentagon objective since at least before the collapse of
the
Soviet Union in nineteen ninety-one. And the Nine Eleven attack gave
them
the pretext to make this major grab for the oil and gas of Central Asia.
And
they are there today with their bases, with their troops, in the
surrounding
countries in Central Asia. And of course in the process, obliterated, we
don
't even have an estimate of the Muslims in Afghanistan who were killed
in
the air bombardment, twenty, twenty five thousand, maybe more, and tens
of
thousands of others starved to death and still suffering today.

But that, as we know from all the records was only the first step in the
process. They wanted to finish the job in Iraq. And so immediately after
September 11, Bush ordered Rumsfeld to update and operationalize the
plans
for attacking and invading Iraq. It had nothing at all to do with
weapons of
mass destruction. We in the peace movement in America had been saying
that
all along. The United Nations had determined there were no weapons of
mass
destruction in Iraq. These were lies designed to scaremonger the
American
people and Congress into supporting an illegal war of aggression, a
Nuremberg crime against peace, against Iraq. And they told whatever lies
and
broke what international laws they had to break in order to attack Iraq.

And today the estimate, again we don't know. Perhaps two hundred
thousand
people in Iraq had been killed outright by the United States, Britain,
its
allies, Australia in Iraq. And again, most of them civilians. Clearly if
you
add up what United States government has done to Iraq from August of
1990,
when it imposed the genocidal economic embargo until today. The United
States and Britain have inflicted outright genocide on the Muslim and
Christian people of Iraq and they are predominately Muslim as we know.

Now comes the third step in the Pentagon's pre-existing plan, to control
and
dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia.
It'
s sounds a bit like the plan that Hitler and the Nazis had in the
1930"s.
Does it not? First go into Austria, then go into Czechoslovakia, then go
into Poland. So first Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now Iran. And so now
Iran
is going to be the next victim of these outright criminals unless you
and I
can stop them.

Right now there are three aircraft carrier task forces in the Persian
Gulf.
And whenever they had put three aircraft carrier task forces over there,
it'
s always to prepare for an attack. And according to Seymour Hersch, the
award winning journalist, it will probably be an aerial bombardment,
along
the lines of what they did to Yugoslavia in 1999. As you remember there,
seventy eight days of aerial bombardment by the United States and NATO
with
no authorization from the Security Council. Clearly illegal. Killing
again,
we don't know the exact number outright, four to five thousand innocent
civilians. And targeting civilian infrastructure, all up and down, from
which the people still suffer today. The use of depleted uranium
ammunitions, outbreaks of cancer are documented today.

So this is what, is being planned right now as we speak; an attack upon
Iran. Using jet fighter aircraft, fighter bombers, on these three
aircraft
carrier task forces, using cruise missiles on submarines and of course
Israel will be involved and have a role to play, doing exactly what the
Americans tell them to do. In addition, it appears that if they attack
Iran,
they will also attack Syria. Yesterday, if you heard President Bush's
press
conference in Vienna, he threatened Syria, right? There's no other word
for
it. He threatened Syria.

These Neo-Conservatives want to take out Syria as a favour to Israel.
Remember, many of these Neo-Conservatives are affiliated personally and
professionally with the Likhud Party in Israel and Ariel Sharon, the
butcher
of Beirut, the man who exterminated twenty thousand Arabs in Lebanon,
most
of them, not all of them were Muslims. And in addition, slaughtered two
thousand completely innocent Palestinian women, children and old men at
Sabra and Shatila. Ariel Sharon, the man who went to Haram Al-Sharif,
the
third holiest site in Islam, where Muhammad, (Peace Be Upon Him)
ascended
into heaven, and desecrated the Haram on September 28th, 2000, and
deliberately provoked the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and has
inflicted
death and destruction on the Palestinian people since then. Close to
thirty
seven hundred Palestinians since then alone have been killed..most of
them
shot down like dogs in the street, and what has the Muslim world done
about
This?
If the United States attacks Iran,
they
will probably attack Syria with the Israeli air force and they will
attack
Lebanon to take out the Islamic resistance movement in southern Lebanon
-
Hezbollah that defended the legitimate rights of Lebanon and the
Lebanese
people and expelled the invading longstanding occupying Israeli army
that
had the full support of the United States government for over twenty
years.

So they could attack Iran, Syria, Southern Lebanon and inflict yet
another
round of ethnic cleansing on the suffering Palestinian people. Remember
Sharon and Likhud believe that Jordan is Palestine. And they want to
drive
as many Palestinians as possible out of their homes and into Jordan.

So if the United States as reported by Hersh and other reliable sources,
goes ahead and attacks Iran, we could see warfare erupt all the way from
Egypt to the border with India. This whole area convulsed in warfare.
And
who will be the primary victims of this war? Muslims. The United States
could not care less about Muslim life. Look at the demonisation and
victimisation of Muslims that we have seen inflicted by the United
States
and its surrogate, Israel. Look at Guantanamo, where six hundred Muslim
men
have been treated like dogs in a kennel. Pretty much the way the Nazis
treated the Jews. Look at Abu Ghraib and the sadism and sexual
exploitation
and perversion of Muslims by their American captors. And the same thing
has
been done in Baghram in Afghanistan. And when Professor Sharif
Bassiouni,
the UN special rapporteur filed the report with the Security Council
against
US practices in Afghanistan, the Americans had Kofi Annan fire him. Just
as
they had Kofi Annan fire Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for
human
rights, when she protested what was going on down in Guantanamo.

The United States could not care less about Muslim life. And the same is
true for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel. They would be happy
to
use nuclear weapons against Iran. They would be happy to break the taboo
of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki against Muslims in Iran. It would create no
problem
at all for them. Indeed, I went to school with these Neo-Conservatives
at
the University of Chicago. Wolfowitz was there, Chalabi, Khalilzad,
Shulsky,
all the rest of them. I went through the exact same programme. Their
mentor,
Professor Leo Strauss. And who was his teacher in Germany and his
sponsor?
Professor Carl Schmitt who went on to become the most notorious Nazi law
Professor of his day, justifying every atrocity that the Nazis inflicted
on
everyone. We must understand that these Neo-Conservatives are in fact
Neo-Nazis. They have espoused the Nazi doctrine of Schmitt and Strauss
and
Machiavelli and Nietzsche, the 'superman'. They are the supermen, and
the
Muslims are the scum of the earth.

Now, I do not believe the United States will initially start bombing
Iran
with nuclear weapons. But if things get out of control they are fully
prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons. And here in our materials, you
have the Pentagon's Joint Publication 3-12, which you can get on the
internet.. just do a Google search and read it. And you will see there
dated
fifteenth March 2005; nuclear, tactical nuclear weapons have been fully
integrated into United States conventional forces.

So if Iran were to defend itself, human wave attacks, whatever, they
will be
happy to use nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons against Iran.
Remember, these Neo-Nazis, Neo-Cons want to break the taboo of Hiroshima
and
Nagasaki. They want to use tactical nuclear weapons, to be able to say
to
the rest of the world, you do what we tell you to do or else look what
we
did to the Iranians.

It's a very serious situation. And this could even get further out of
control. Remember that before Bush invaded Iraq, President Putin of
Russia
said that if he invades Iraq he could set off World War Three. Well, I
interpreted that as an implicit threat. Even the famous American news
broadcaster Walter Cronkite said that if Bush invaded Iraq he could set
off
World War Three. Two weeks ago we had the meeting of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization; China, Russia and Iran. So again, if Bush were
to
attack Iran, he very well could set off a Third World War, a nuclear
war.
And that is where you come in.

And I am calling
upon you to do whatever you can
to head this off. Allah has given each
and
everyone of you skills that can be used in this endeavour. I can't tell
you
what they are, but you yourself know what they are. You must say:
"This is
what
I can do. These are my talents. These are my professional
qualifications.
These are my skills. Let me help. Let me
prevent,
let me help prevent a nuclear war, a possible final, cataclysmic Third
World
War."
"Thank you, shukran."